Puriyaadha Pudhir

Puriyaadha Pudhir (1990)

புரியாத புதிர்

After escaping from jail, Raghu, a convict, unknowingly hides in a house that belongs to his college friend, Geetha. However, complications ensue when he finds a corpse in her wardrobe.

Date of release
1990-09-07
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 7m
Genres
Crime, Thriller
Director
K. S. Ravikumar

Casting

Interesting facts

Puriyadha Pudir is a 1990 Indian Tamil-language mystery thriller film written and directed by K. S. Ravikumar in his directorial debut. It is a remake of the 1989 Kannada film Tarka which was based on Agatha Christie's 1958 play, The Unexpected Guest. The film, produced by R. B. Choudary, stars Rahman, Raghuvaran, Sarathkumar, Anand Babu, Rekha and Sithara. It was released on 7 September 1990.

Production

The producer R. B. Choudary had remade the Kannada film Tarka (1989), based on Agatha Christie's 1958 play, The Unexpected Guest in Malayalam as Chodhyam; however, the remake remained unreleased, as he was not happy with the final cut. He later decided to remake Tarka in Tamil, and asked K. S. Ravikumar, then an assistant under Vikraman, to write the screenplay.

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